Lassen-Amador-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Masten, J. T. 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

J. T. MASTEN.—He was born in Jacksonville, Morgan county, Illinois, April 19,
1835. Two years later his parents removed to Adams county, where he remained
most of the time until he came overland to California, arriving in Amador county
August 15, 1852. Until the spring of 1860 he mined in Amador, El Dorado, and
Sacramento counties, when he bought a farm in Yolo county, and engaged in
farming there for thirteen years. In the spring of 1873 he sold out, and bought
760 acres of John W. Kelley, twenty miles east of Susanville, on which he has
since resided. Mr. Masten is a member of the Masonic and A. O. U. W. lodges at
Janesville. He is a republican in politics. December 24, 1863, he married Miss
Amelia D. Terrill of Elgin, Illinois, born in Yates county, New York, December
18, 1843. Their children are Minnie L., born November 16, 1868; Elbertia A.,
March 9, 1878. The former was born at Knight's Landing, Yolo county, and the
latter in Lassen county.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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